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ONLY BOMBS! 32: Kimberly Koester | The Sacrifice, the Stage & the Comedy Addiction · Only Bombs! Comedy Podcast

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To the podcast, where we blow up all the jokes,
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of Pop, soda pop, pop, pop, baby. It's your show.
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You do whatever you want. All right. I got on
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Kill Tony again. I don't know if you remembered
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that. You knew that. Oh. I just got on. Oh, my
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God. Like a month ago. A month ago. I think I
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did see it. Because you got a big joke book.
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He said how much he loves you. Yes. And everything.
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Yes. And oh, wait, I forgot what they're talking
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about. But I remember they were kind of like,
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they're bringing up like the same shit, I think,
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weren't they? You know, me being a cougar. Yeah,
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all that. Yeah. You get that every time, don't
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you? I do. Yeah. That's crazy. I know. I think
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so, too. How do you feel about that, like, when
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the whole Cougar thing? Well, it's flattering.
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It's flattering? I mean, you know, I'm 55 years
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old, so that people think I'm still fuckable
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is, I guess, nice. Yeah. I mean, I could, yeah,
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I could look really old, so it's a compliment.
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Yeah. I mean... I do look old, but, you know,
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fuckably old. No, you look better than... most
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55 year olds to be honest with you like seriously
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like you know it is weird when you get in your
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50s you you look at other 50 year olds and it's
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like do i look like that you know it yeah i i
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went back to my hometown and um someone from
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my high school was like hey kimberly i'm like
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who in the hell is that old guy and then i realized
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he was someone really cool from high school oh
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wow yeah didn't recognize him at all Oh, I'm
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just now getting into that, you know, because
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I turned 41. And so I'm just now starting to
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see that because I'll see people and I'll be
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like, oh my gosh, like this dude's got to be
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like 50 some of that. And then they're like,
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oh no, I'm 40 years old. And I'm like, do I look
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like that? Yeah, I think everyone past like the
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age of 38, you can't, you know, you can't tell
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anyone's age. No. Because some people look really
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good and some people do not. No, no. Starts to
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catch up with you. Yeah, there was something
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else. I forgot. Like I said, my little slate
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gets wiped clean. But there was something else
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I think my sister and I were talking about. And
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there was somebody that they were referring to.
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that was like, oh, I think they just passed away.
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And they were like 51. And they were like, oh,
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they were so old. And I was like, asshole. That's
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like 10 years older than I am. Like, it's not
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that old. Yeah. I remember in high school, one
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of our classmates died in a car accident. And
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we were all sitting around after the funeral.
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And one of my friends is like, oh, my god, that's
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so young. 17 is so young. 30 is even young. And
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I remember at the time thinking, well, is it
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though? Right. Yeah. Of course, 30 is young.
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Yeah. Now you're kind of like, I mean, I look
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back at it and I'm like, even people who are
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in their early 30s, I'm like, oh yeah, they're
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young. Yeah. They're young. Because I mean, I
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think what it is too is a lot of the life experience
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that you get and when you start actually like
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learning about life. Yeah. It's a, I think, you
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know, you go through like your 20s and you're
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sort of figuring yourself out. You're not really
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thinking about life in general. And then you
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get older and you start thinking about life.
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Right. Yeah. You know, what I, I have, I have
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sons in their twenties and I feel like Gen Z
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though is so much more savvy than I ever was
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in my twenties. And it's because of technology,
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but like, I didn't know what a narcissist was
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until I was like 40, you know? And my son and
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I talk about the characteristics of narcissism
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and, you know, all these things that they can
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research. I had, I had encyclopedias. The Britannica.
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Yeah. Always missing volumes. Yeah. And three
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channels. I didn't know anything back then. Yeah.
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I kind of grew up the same way. Only had just,
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I don't know. I think there was like four channels
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that I watched. and one of them being Comedy
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Central from way back in the day. But nowadays,
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even on my Samsung TV, there's thousands of channels
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that they just give you. I don't even watch it.
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Because how can you even discover anything? Yeah.
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There's too many choices. Yeah. But you're right
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about Gen Z, about that. Because they have everything
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at their fingertips. Yeah. I love that generation.
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I love Gen Z's. They're just, I don't know. Aside
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from the tech savviness, is there like another
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kind of... I don't know. They're just kind. They're
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really kind people. Yeah. You know, when I first
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moved here, I worked in a salon and my two best
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friends, my two best coworkers were 21 and 23.
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And we would just sit and have conversations
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all the time. And, you know, it was like, we
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just... I don't know. They're just so fun to
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bullshit with. But then, you know, you're a millennial,
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so I won't talk too badly about you, but millennials
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and boomers are very similar to each other. I
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feel like maybe they take things more seriously.
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I don't know. But then you have Gen X and Gen
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Z, and we're just, in my opinion, kind of just
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bullshitters. I don't know. Yeah, in an odd way,
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I still don't even know what the hell the millennial
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thing is. Like, I'm learning the Gen Z because
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just because of just conversations I have with
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people, you know, a buddy of mine, Scott and
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I, we were just talking about Gen Z and we were
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talking about like how they're going to be like
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the next, you know, I was like, can you imagine
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these guys like as like spec ops, you know, like
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like Navy SEALs or some shit. And then we just
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went off on this whole thing about, like, yeah,
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they're going to be pulling up in helicopters
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with, like, lights and, like, lasers. It's going
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to be, like, bumping, like, a pink rope. Yeah,
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yeah. Well, I have a theory, you know, because
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my kids played the damn Xbox all the time. And
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it's like, I wonder if the government is training
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them to be soldiers, because they're sitting
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in the room for hours killing people. It's like,
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they got really good at it. Yeah, they get really
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good at it. That was basically the wrap up of
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the story. Like we said, some people think that,
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you know, they're a bunch of pussies, but I'm
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like, watch them actually be like fucking bad
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ass. They're like, watch them just straight like
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slay, you know, and like it's nothing, you know?
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It's like, they're just submerged in all this
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like technology and violence and it's just like
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given all at once. I've heard what comes out
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of their mouths when they're in those rooms or
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whatever. Jesus. Yeah, it's bad. It should be
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illegal. Yeah, suck my ass, you cock -sucking
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piece of shit. I have a joke about that. Yeah.
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In my joke, I say, and this actually happened,
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and my son and I laughed about this so hard the
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other night. When he was in middle school, he
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came downstairs and he was crying, and it was
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because his friends were being really mean to
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him on the Xbox. Oh, really? Which is really
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embarrassing. But I went up there and put his
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headset on. And I'm like, boys, someone's being
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mean on the game. And I just hear, what the fuck?
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And in my joke, you know, I talk about being
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a cool mom, which obviously that's not a cool,
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but my son is like, God, I was such a chud. I'm
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such a chud. Oh, man, I love that chud. I know.
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You're savvy with all the terms now. I am. Yeah.
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Well, that's because I work with those 20 -year
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-old girls. They taught me all the, you know.
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So you're like getting in there, right? Yeah.
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Oh my gosh. So when you were their age, how did
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you look at older people? Oh, I hated them. I
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was scared of old people. Right? Yeah, because
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I thought they were going to go off on me at
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any moment, you know? They probably would have.
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They probably would have, yeah. That's because
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it was a different generation. It was. Those
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would have been the, what are they, the greatest
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generation, the war people. Right, yeah. My uncle,
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one of my great uncles, he used to like, Like,
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I used to always get, like, the hairs in the
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back of my head standing up, because he would
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just walk by and just slap me in the back of
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the head for no fucking reason at all. But every
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time he came by, I was like, oh, you know, just
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waiting for it, and it never happened. You know?
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Yeah. They were the generation that would just
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straight up go, well, that's a stupid question.
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Why are you stupid? You know? They were mean.
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They were mean. They wouldn't explain nothing
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to you. No. because they would just be like,
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you need to learn it yourself. And it's like,
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I don't know what I don't know, asshole. Yeah,
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that made us even dumber. We didn't have tech,
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well, they probably didn't know either. That's
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probably why they didn't explain anything. Yeah,
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that's the cold hard truth. They had no fucking
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clue. No, no. Yeah, but nowadays, if I just randomly
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slap somebody in the back of the head, it's like
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jail. Just fucking jail. Right off the bat. They
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were like, you abuse children, you're going to
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jail. You can't even threaten anyone anymore.
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No, no. You can't even like, I'm going to punch
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you in the face. It's like, damn, dude. Yeah,
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you can't say shit. You can't do anything. You
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can't move, you know. You got to be careful.
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Be careful these days. Yeah, this new generation,
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like this, I guess like the brand new people,
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because I'm right there. This new generation
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of comedians and everything. And I'm one of them.
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I've only been in it like three years now. Yeah,
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but you're not a newbie anymore. No, no. There
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is kind of like an evolution. Yeah. And I'm starting
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to notice the evolution. And from talking with
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a lot of the other comedians who have been in
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for like a year, things like that, I kind of
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find myself telling them like, oh yeah, I remember
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when I used to do that. Yeah. And it's kind of
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like growing up. There's an evolution to it.
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But you always hear about these guys who drop
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everything, and they're living in their cars,
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and they're not dreaming responsibly. And I know
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we kind of touch base on almost like the addiction.
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It is an addiction. It's like, I mean, I've never
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done heroin, but I've heard it's a lot like heroin
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because when you get that first big laugh, like
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when you're in a great room and you get that
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serious, solid laugh and the adrenaline hits
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your body, you chase that. And then you want
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an even bigger laugh next time. And, you know,
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you just want that high and you just chase after
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it and you'll do anything to get it. You'll drive
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three hours for 10 minutes at the time. Um, and
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then on the other side of it, when you get the
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bomb, you know, you want to kill yourself. And
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bombs. But no, it's, it's the truth though. It
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is the truth. I actually, I'm fortunate enough
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to have had, I was filming my first big laugh.
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And so I got like to see like the look on my
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face and you could see like the pure shock. Like
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I was like, I was like, what the? You guys can
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do that? Do you remember your first big laugh?
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Actually, I do. I was on stage at ComedyWorks
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in Denver, which is an amazing room. This was
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like new talent sign up. I have it too. It's
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on my Instagram. Yeah, the big laugh and then
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I stop and I go, thank you. I feel that. I totally
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feel that. And I didn't even walk to my car.
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I just like floated. My feet did not touch the
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ground. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you mean. Because
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I'm pretty sure that night, because this is back
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when they had Dogwood. I don't know if you ever
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went to Dogwood. Just a little bar, but I used
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to love the mic that they did. And it was right
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around the corner from tiniest. Oh, okay. So
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you could sign up at Tiniest and you know you're
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going to be a while. So you can go do Dogwood
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and come back for your set in Tiniest. And it
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was like Thursdays, and that's what I used to
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do. Nice. And so it was a typical thing, signed
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up at Tiniest, went over to Dogwood, and I just
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said my joke and people laughed. And I was like,
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whoa, you know? Yeah. And then I go to Tiniest
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and no one laughed. Yeah, see, it depends on
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the room, the crowd. It depends on the room,
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yeah. So what do you think about people who are
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like, you know, changing or rearranging their
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lives around it? I remember when I first started
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comedy, an older comedian said, you know, comedy
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will ruin your life. And I've been thinking about
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that a lot lately. It's like, oh, God, you know,
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the things I've sacrificed in order to be a comedian,
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you know, just moving from Colorado to... to
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Austin and, you know, closing my business and,
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you know, it's not, I've cried more in the last
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year and a half from like, you know, my living,
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uncomfortable living situation than I have, you
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know, being a single mom for 16 years. It's like,
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it's not easy. And so that uncomfortable living
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situation is all centered around comedy? Well,
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I think, well, You know, I think back like if
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I didn't do comedy, I would have never moved
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to Austin. I wouldn't have had that addiction
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for it. I would have just found a good job and
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probably got married to some guy and, you know,
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I'd be baking casseroles right now somewhere.
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Yeah, it's a different life. Yeah, it is a different
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life, but it is worth it. You know, I'm not complaining.
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It's that... that time on the stage is worth
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all of that. It really is. Yeah. There is a thing
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about it. Even when you just set foot off the
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stage, you're already ready to go back up. Yeah.
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Despite even feeling drained. Yeah. You're wanting
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to go back up. Yeah. It's like, I want to do
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that again. Yeah. But that person that has a
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set right before you, I sit there really nervous
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going, why am I doing this? Why am I here? Why
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am I doing? And then you get on the stage and
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it all goes away. But yeah. Yeah. So you have
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that, like that initial like that. Oh shit. Oh
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shit. Oh shit. Yeah. Okay. That's good. That's
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good. Cause you've been doing it. How long have
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you been doing it? Five years. Five years. Yeah.
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So I'm not that far. ahead of you. Yeah. Always
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a learning process. It is. Yeah. When they say
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laughter is the best medicine, I always think
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like, yeah, it's just like being a doctor. There's
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a practice. Yes. You know, and it's a constant
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learning and things like that. It is. Yeah. Yeah.
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So what are some of the biggest risks that you
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found from moving everything around for common?
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I realized that I don't like working and having
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a job anymore, but I really do need to have a
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job. Yeah. You know, so yeah, I am I Don't eat
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them all so I'm a hairstylist and you know once
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you've gotten on a few big stage and you've gotten
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Some great laughs and then you go to work the
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next day. It's and you walk in it's like why
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is the neighbor one applauding? And I just walked
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in the door, you know? Yeah. So no one's at work
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has ever been like, oh, I saw you last night
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on like Kill Tony or anything? No. No. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's hard to be, you know, treated like
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an employee and a servant after you've had, you
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know, people cheering for you. It's like, you
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know, so yeah. And that's just my ego. Well,
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yeah, I get it I get it but there is a certain
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level of ego because you put a lot of work into
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it Yeah, and that's where the ego I think comes
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from Yeah, so for me what I do is like, you know,
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whenever I have a great set or something I'll
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call my brother or my mom or something like that.
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Who do you call? Like who do you sons? Yeah.
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Yeah, they love that huh? They do. Yeah. Yeah,
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they they seem to anyways they you know Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, what are your conversations like
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after a good set? Do you just unload on them?
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I do. Yeah. That's great, though. Yeah. Yeah.
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And then I always stop myself like, I'm sorry.
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All I'd ever talk about with you is comedy. I'm
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sorry. How's it going? How's your girlfriend?
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I do the same thing. I literally do the same
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thing. I'll be talking for like 20 minutes, just
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telling my mom about the podcast or, you know,
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just if I did a set and I'll just tell her about
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it and I'll be like, oh, wait, I'm sorry. I'm
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sorry. How are you, mom? How are you doing? I
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love you very much. I'm sorry I didn't ask. I
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said it. We're addicts. Yeah, yeah. Sorry about
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that. How's the lupus? Is the lupus going well?
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Oh, yeah. But anyways. Yeah, right? Exactly.
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You know, but no, it's true. There is a level
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of addiction to comedy. You know, it is just
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something like almost, I don't know if you feel
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the same way, but it's almost like a masochism
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in a way. Oh, it is. You know, it's because you
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are getting punished. Most of the time. Yeah.
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I mean, yeah. And I don't know how many heckle
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mics and joke roast mics you've done, but...
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I've never done really any of those. You haven't?
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Yeah. I did the banana phone and afterwards I
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was thinking, it's like, why do we do that? Yeah.
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Why did I just stand on a stage to have people
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bling insults at me? Like, why did I do that?
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I remember I was there for that. Because I was
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watching that. And the only thing I kept thinking
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of during that time is, where's the good jokes?
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Because it was all the same shit. It was all
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the same. Yeah. Yeah, OK, I'm old. Right. Cougar
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shit. Yeah, I already heard it a million times.
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Yeah. There was one funny one. I mean, someone
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said I look like handsome Squidward. And so I
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had to look him up and I'm like, okay, I get
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it. I get it. Like, I get it. But I'm like, at
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the same time I don't. It's the jaw. I don't
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know. Right? It's like something. It's just some
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accented features there. But so like what kind
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of other avenues do you go down to explore as
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a comedian? Well, you know, I've started dipping
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my toe in producing shows which really yeah,
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I can't really brag about too much yet because
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I like I did a Show in Iowa in my hometown and
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that was so much fun. Oh nice. Yeah, it was uh,
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it was a big theater It was like a 500 seat theater
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and I got Charlie Mack to come and oh nice and
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Sancho to come, you know, I tried to pick comedians
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that anyone who watches Kill Tony would know
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who they were. And it was so fun. The problem
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was is that there was a country music concert
20:07
the next town over. So it wasn't a huge... It
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was dead. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't a huge ticket
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seller. But I still had so much fun. It's like,
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I did this. I put this on. That sounds so cool.
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So I want to do more of that. I want to take
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comedians from Austin and bring them to the Midwest.
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These mid -sized towns in the Midwest don't have
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a lot of live comedy. So it's kind of an untapped
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market there. And they're such good audiences.
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They love it. They probably like really want
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that kind of release, you know, that just like
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laughter, the release of laughter. Yeah, you
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know, you do comedy in a large city like, especially
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Austin, where there's, you know, a comedy show
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on every corner. The audiences are kind of like,
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okay, make me laugh, funny boy, you know, whereas
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you go to a town where there hasn't been a live
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comedy show there ever. They're so excited. Yeah.
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Which audience would you rather perform in front
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of? I'd rather be in front of these people that
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are just hungry for comedy. Yeah, just super
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enthusiastic and ready to laugh. That seems like
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a whole winning thing. Yeah. A lot of these places,
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even a lot of these bigger cities that are coming
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up. with comedy as a new thing seem to be more
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like the crowd is like, okay, impress me. It
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has to impress me. So they come in there with
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an expectation that's almost higher. Have you
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observed that as well? I have. Back when I was
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touring more with Moms Unhinged, I remember one
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time we did Kansas and we went to Topeka, which
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is a smaller town and the audience was amazing.
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Then the next night we went to Kansas City and
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it was it was that they're like, you know, it's
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comedy whatever right? Oh, you didn't really
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you didn't really make me laugh the way I wanted
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to right? You're not like Shane Gillis Yeah,
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yeah, you know this tickets were only ten bucks
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exactly. Yeah, but it's the truth though It is
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kind of like, you know, they just they are like
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that and I noticed it a lot in places that are
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growing You know, it's like cuz I think that
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they're sort of How do you say like Yeah, okay,
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you know how like you get into something new
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and you just obsess over it for a little while
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You know, I feel like a city will go through
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that when they grow in comedy Yeah, so now all
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these comedy clubs are open and then the people
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will go Yeah, and they'll just keep going and
22:48
going and going and not realizing that they're
22:50
like kind of yeah, you know They're turning into
22:53
that. Yeah, and it makes it harder on you as
22:55
a comedian because now you have to be really
22:57
good Yes, you know you have to be like on yeah,
23:00
you know well and the thing is is that What I've
23:03
noticed too is you know, there there are some
23:06
Some terrible comedians who will get up there
23:09
and then I always worry that the audience thinks
23:12
oh Is this what comedy is right? No. Oh, yeah
23:16
Yeah, bring your a game if you are actually getting
23:19
in front of real people Yeah, exactly. So they'll
23:22
come back to another show in the future. Yeah.
23:25
So being like kind of like, I guess, like an
23:28
older and age comedian, you know, like, what's
23:31
your perspective on this, you know, this younger
23:35
kind of community? Yeah. Well, you know, I started
23:40
comedy at 50. And I wish I would have started
23:45
in my 20s. I had no idea you could do comedy
23:49
back then. Um, but I feel because I'm older and
23:55
I've, you know, I've been married and divorced
23:57
and I've been a single mom and I've had a career
24:00
and, you know, I've had parent deaths and, you
24:03
know, you know, lots of shit happened in my life.
24:05
I feel like my well of, um, comedy material is
24:10
so much deeper than, um, you know, this guy who's
24:14
talking about jacking off. Yeah. Yeah. The more
24:18
life experience. Yeah. And there is something
24:22
to that. Do you have any kind of, I think, serious
24:27
drawbacks, I guess, to being that way? Yeah.
24:33
I always feel really uncomfortable at the mics
24:41
because everyone's just... young and cool, and
24:46
I always feel like I'm standing in the corner
24:48
of my purse with my polyester, you know, pantsuit,
24:52
like, okay, you kids. Yeah, so do you think that
24:57
you do that to yourself? I totally do. Yeah,
25:01
I totally do. Yeah, it's just a mindset, I guess.
25:04
Yeah, it's a mindset, but they're, like, you
25:08
know, they've been pretty accepting of you. Yeah,
25:10
yeah. When I, you know, and I'm, pretty introverted.
25:15
I'm actually a pretty shy person. So, and I think
25:18
most comedians are, I mean, we're all awkward.
25:22
So, you know, going up and making small talk
25:24
with someone, I, you know, and what do I make
25:28
small talk, you know, to a 23 -year -old kid?
25:33
I don't know. I guess, you know, I just. Yeah,
25:37
I guess it's just kind of like, you know, putting
25:39
yourself back in their shoes and just being like,
25:41
where were you at back then? And I guess it's
25:45
relating to them on that level, I suppose. Because
25:47
I know what you mean, though. Because there's
25:49
a lot of younger comedians who, I guess, they'll
25:53
talk to me or they'll ask me a lot of questions.
25:58
And I try to tell them, I'm like, I'm not a guru
26:00
in this, man. I don't know. Some of them I've
26:04
met have been in it a long time, but just because
26:06
of my age, because I'm just that much older than
26:08
they are, they tend to. Just assume that you're,
26:12
yeah. Just assume. Do you experience anything
26:14
like that? A little, but not really. I'm a woman,
26:18
so I don't think I get it as much. That's been
26:21
said on here quite a bit. Women in comedy, they
26:26
have a much different perspective than the male
26:30
community and everything. For example, nobody
26:32
would ever call me whatever the male equivalent
26:34
of a cougar is. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Nobody
26:38
ever say that about me. And I made the mistake
26:42
of my last Kill Tony appearance. I made the mistake
26:45
of screen recording the chat that happens as
26:50
the episode drops when I got up there. And that's
26:53
where all the meanest things are said. And as
26:57
soon as I appeared on the stage, it was... Gremlin
27:02
gargoyle look at her arms, you know, she really
27:06
yeah just like tearing my physical appearance
27:09
apart and They wouldn't do that to a man. So
27:14
unless he really looked weird. I mean, I don't
27:16
maybe I look weird but you know just Yeah, that's
27:22
terrible. And it's also very not true, by the
27:24
way, just letting you know. Not a gremlin or
27:26
a gargoyle. No, yeah, I'd be like, it'd be kind
27:29
of weird, but I'd be like, can I see your wings?
27:32
I'm like, yeah, I just got off the tower, the
27:35
bell tower there too, you know. No, it is kind
27:38
of ridiculous, but it has its certain challenges.
27:41
Like you have like a little bit more stacked
27:43
against you. Yeah, yeah. I have to look fuckable,
27:47
I guess. I don't know. I mean, but men don't
27:49
have to, so. No, we all look the same. We got
27:53
our shirts on and pants, and that's it. We go.
27:56
But women, it's like it is a different thing.
27:59
And the reason why I say that is because enough
28:02
women have been on here and they all said the
28:04
same thing. It seems like, you know, just it's
28:08
a challenge. It's challenging, which is unfortunate.
28:10
It shouldn't be, you know, because this is an
28:12
art form. Right. But, you know, you have to have
28:15
thick skin. You're going to do this. It's just
28:17
part of it. Does those kind of challenges affect
28:20
your goals in comedy? Not, not really. You know,
28:27
I think the thing that you have to There are
28:31
so many layers to becoming a good comedian. Of
28:34
course, you have to know how joke structure works,
28:38
and timing, and all of your stage presence. But
28:44
then the next layer to that is you have to know
28:46
what your persona is. I have this filter system
28:49
where I start with a really crappy cheap spiral
28:52
notebook, and that's where I start writing down
28:55
all my ideas. transfer that to my next notebook,
29:01
which is a little nicer. Um, and, you know, and
29:04
I cut all the, all the garbage out. And then,
29:08
and then I, you know, I have about five notebooks
29:11
that I just keep transferring the same joke to
29:13
until it's show worthy. It's in a little notebook
29:17
that I can take with me. That way it's just,
29:20
cause you know, with, with jokes, you need to
29:23
cut out all the fat. So it's like, I just filter
29:26
it down. Instead of and I started doing that
29:29
because I didn't want to like write my my crappy
29:31
ideas in my nice notebook So yeah, just kind
29:35
of yeah, and I love that I love that like that
29:38
process because I remember telling you that you
29:40
know I've got a I got a bunch of notebooks lying
29:42
around like all over the place and I always Rewrite
29:45
my jokes in whatever notebook I happen to be
29:47
working on that time. So I really love it. So
29:49
do you have a Like a stage book that you just
29:52
like are this is my notebook make it to the stage.
29:54
Yes Yeah, and it's it's like this big. Yeah,
29:57
and and I actually went on and Amazon and got
30:00
a pack of like No books that big and you know,
30:04
and they're all different colors and I you know
30:06
at first when I got him I was like I'm gonna
30:08
write the month on it, you know, so I know that
30:10
was all organized but yeah, that's gone out the
30:13
window, but at least I have like something small
30:15
enough that I can just Yeah. Do you also buy
30:19
pens, too? Because I buy like pens that I like
30:22
to write. Yes. Yeah? Yeah, like this is one of
30:24
them, you know? Yeah, nice one. Nice pen. Just
30:27
basic black pen, but it's like, it's got like
30:29
the, you know, it just writes really nice, you
30:31
know? So do you do that, too, with your novels?
30:33
I do. Well, I have pens from like certain comedy
30:37
clubs that I write with, too. And that just makes
30:40
me feel special. Like I have a couple pens from
30:43
the Comedy Works in Denver. And I'm like, I'm
30:47
writing comedy with my comedy pen. That is really
30:50
cool. Yeah. That's like an immersive experience.
30:52
Yeah, yeah. I'm going to be really sad when those
30:55
dry out. You should be able to just get like
30:57
a little... A cartridge for it, I guess, huh?
30:59
Oh, I probably could. You think? Yeah. Yeah.
31:02
I don't know. Yeah. We'll call Bic. Hey, Bic.
31:06
Or Pilot. Yeah. Or I could go back to the Comedy
31:09
Works in Denver and just steal more pins, I guess.
31:11
Yeah. There you go. So what needs to happen for
31:17
you to get your comedic gears going for it to
31:19
make a notebook, period? You know, that's so
31:22
funny because I... I try to force myself to sit
31:26
down and write, and I have way too much ADHD
31:30
to do that. But I've noticed, like, if I'm cooking
31:34
or cleaning or, you know, doing anything else,
31:37
if I'm also working a joke out, it just comes
31:41
like that. It just, you know, and I'm like, oh,
31:44
that's good. And I walk over to the counter and
31:46
write down what I was just thinking. Yeah. Oh,
31:49
this is making me remember what we were talking
31:51
about before. So to the listeners, we had a little
31:54
technical difficulty. So there's a clip. But
31:57
anyway, we were talking about before, because
31:59
you got into conversations. Oh, yeah. You were
32:01
speaking about the natural state of conversations
32:04
and everything. And then you said that you got
32:09
it from work, right? Yeah. Well, you were saying
32:15
that you'll work out a joke with a friend and
32:18
like slip different jokes into the conversation.
32:23
And I do that when I'm doing hair too. And the
32:27
good thing about it is you get to hear what their
32:31
response is. And that either gives you a good
32:35
tagline if they're a funny person or it tells
32:38
you like what the audience would probably be
32:40
thinking. when you told that joke. Yeah. And
32:44
it's kind of nice to know what they would be
32:47
thinking, because then you can say the opposite
32:49
and make it funny. Yeah. Surprise them. Oh, yeah.
32:53
And that's the way I like to do it, because it's
32:55
so engaging, you know? But you were speaking
32:57
a second ago, like, about opening up just a book
33:00
and sitting there and just trying to have a discipline
33:02
of writing, and I can't do that either. Yeah.
33:04
You know, I have such a hard time with doing
33:06
that. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, writer's block. Yeah,
33:08
immediately. Yeah. You know, I can't like, I
33:11
can't pull from anywhere because of that. Yeah.
33:14
You know, I almost don't even know like, I just,
33:16
I just like, oh, what the fuck? What do I write
33:18
about? I got this whole life ahead of you and
33:21
you're like, what do I write about? You know,
33:22
it's, it's like, uh, when you're in the shower,
33:25
you, you know, the best ideas come or, you know,
33:27
it's like your mind is not forcing itself. It's
33:31
starting to cramp. Yeah. That's so funny. You
33:34
mentioned the shower thing, cause I just learned
33:36
like what shower thoughts were. Because for the
33:39
longest time I was like, what the fuck's that?
33:41
Like, I'd never heard that. But I guess it's
33:43
like little epiphanies that will happen. Have
33:46
you had like any cool shower thoughts lately?
33:49
None come to mind. But yeah, I've heard it's
33:52
because of the water. I mean, the white noise
33:55
probably and you're distracted. But yeah, water
33:59
has some sort of energetic thing to it. Oh, no
34:04
way. I didn't know there was a thing. Are you
34:07
like one of those like crystals people? I'm a
34:09
little woo woo. I am. Little woo woo? Yeah. No,
34:11
that's good though. That's good. So a buddy of
34:14
mine like, because we just went on like this
34:16
long hike and a buddy of mine was like, hey,
34:18
just bring me back a rock, right? And then went
34:21
and stayed in like this nice little like refuge
34:23
place. We met this African guy and he had like
34:26
these crazy rocks, and I'm not like a rock guy,
34:29
but I was like, I gotta have those rocks. Do
34:32
you feel like they have like healing powers and
34:34
all that good stuff? You mean like crystals or?
34:37
Yeah. I will use anything that I can. My algorithm
34:43
on Instagram and TikTok is starting to get a
34:47
little witchy. Okay, hell yeah. Anytime there's
34:51
a woman on there talking about a spell for success
34:54
or so. Yeah, I have little jars around my apartment
34:57
that have like rice and salt and then a name
35:01
inside of it and a little cinnamon on top of
35:04
it. Oh, yeah. That's some voodoo right there.
35:07
Yeah, a little voodoo. Is that voodoo that you
35:10
do? Yeah. I grew up with that. My mom, when we
35:15
got a fever, she used to put onions in our salads.
35:18
Huh? Yeah, I was like... Did it work? No. You
35:25
probably would have worked if you would have
35:26
believed it worked. Maybe. I felt like she was
35:27
just marinating us. She was just trying to get
35:30
us good so she could throw us in the pot. You're
35:33
like Bugs Bunny. Awesome, Papa. Exactly. We had
35:40
weird things like that that we used to do and
35:43
everything. I keep trying to pull stuff like
35:46
that into my comedy, but I'm like, Really sometimes
35:51
I just can't I just can't sit down and write
35:52
it. I have to it has to come like a conversation
35:56
Yeah, it does. It's yeah, it's funny because
35:58
yeah, you can come up with a premise and it's
36:00
like how do I get this into a joke? Yeah, can't
36:05
force it. It's so hard to force it. Mm -hmm.
36:07
Are there any jokes that work better for you
36:09
than others? Um, you mean like Topics or sure.
36:14
Yeah topics, you know it I feel like there's
36:17
an evolution when you first start doing comedy,
36:21
everybody starts off dirty. And the sex jokes
36:25
are so easy to write. And, you know, most of
36:30
my material for the past couple of years have
36:33
been menopause and, you know, chasing young men
36:39
and, you know, just crap like that. And it's
36:43
like, I need to start elevating a little bit
36:46
more. Yeah. To what? Actually, I have a lot of
36:53
interesting things happening in my family right
36:55
now. My dad is 86 and he had a kid when he was
37:03
60. So I have a brother that's 30 years younger
37:06
than me. No way. And my dad's wife was four years
37:10
older than me and she just died. I've been going
37:16
back to Iowa and you know helping them, you know
37:19
cleaning their house and just You know being
37:23
there for my dad, which I haven't we haven't
37:26
had a great relationship for 26 years because
37:30
he had another family and yeah So anyways, I've
37:34
been wanting to like write material around that
37:36
because I'm sure I'm not the only Person who's
37:42
you know, I'm a woman in my 50s with daddy issues.
37:45
There's got to be something funny there Oh, yeah,
37:48
and you know and the whole you know being getting
37:50
to the age where you're taking care of your parents
37:53
and so I know there's stuff there to Write about.
37:58
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, like, you know having daddy
38:00
issues as a mommy Daddy issues, but it's like
38:06
I feel like I'm healing my daddy issues finally,
38:09
so Yeah. In sort of the same realm of family,
38:16
I started writing about my mom because she had
38:18
me at a young age. I almost went into a level
38:23
of absurdity because I tried to go to the high
38:26
school that she went to. What I wrote was I was
38:30
like, oh yeah, my mom. had me at 17. She was
38:32
real young. I actually tried to go to the same
38:34
school, or actually went to the same school that
38:36
she did. We were in the same grade. She cared
38:39
a lot about my grades because she was cheating
38:41
off my papers. Yeah, there's something there.
38:45
There's a lot there, yeah. Yeah, you're just
38:47
kind of like, you're just kind of just throwing
38:49
ideas, just like, whatever, like, you know, just
38:52
fly fishing. Yeah, and it's so interesting how
38:55
jokes evolve over time. You know, I'll write
38:58
a joke and It's usually after a show and I'm
39:02
driving home, I think about how I could write
39:06
that joke better. And then it just evolves. Yeah.
39:10
It is the performance thing where you get up
39:12
there and you think and like, you know, you just
39:15
kind of like play it out. You just see the reaction
39:17
and you're able to almost jot notes, like show
39:19
notes. Yeah. You know, you ever do anything like
39:21
that? Like you ever actually write it down? You
39:23
know, I'm terrible. You know, everyone says you're
39:26
supposed to record your sets and watch them back.
39:29
I never do. But I do just think about them on
39:35
the way home and then I get home and, you know,
39:37
rewrite the joke or... Yeah. I have recorded
39:42
mine, you know, to try to do the social media
39:45
thing, but I feel like that's really just me
39:48
recording mediocre stuff. It's not very funny.
39:52
You're watching me work. on things, you know?
39:56
And I'm like, you're not gonna get it. You're
39:58
not gonna see, but what you are gonna see is
40:01
like the grind, you know, of getting up there
40:05
and working on a joke. I actually had a friend
40:07
send me this reel once, and I wish I could remember
40:11
who the comedian was, but he put together a compilation
40:15
of the same joke being rewritten. from its origin
40:22
all the way until it was perfect. And like every
40:26
time he told it, you know, it was probably a
40:28
three minute video. But it was just amazing to
40:31
watch, like the same joke get better and better
40:34
throughout time. That sounds like Mark Normand.
40:36
Was it him? That sounds like, yeah, because I
40:39
remember he did that. He put one out like that.
40:42
Yeah, I think you're right. I think it was. And
40:44
he's great. You know, he's great. He's just,
40:48
he's from New Orleans too. That's where I'm from.
40:51
And so he's from New Orleans too. And so it's
40:52
kind of cool to see somebody from our neck of
40:55
the woods out there doing his thing. But I also,
40:58
I know that Jeff Foxworthy also did something
41:01
similar to that too. He was like, yeah, I'm gonna
41:04
put it out there. I'm gonna show everybody what
41:06
it takes to just write down a joke from thought
41:09
to stage. You know. That's a pretty good impression.
41:13
Whatever happened to him? Is he around or? I
41:16
think so. I think he's still doing things. Is
41:17
he? You know, but I think it's just obviously
41:19
like much smaller, you know, scale bit. Old.
41:22
But yeah, he, I mean, it just, I mean, he's great.
41:26
You know, what was it the, you know, so I know
41:29
Billy, what was the, here's your sign, but Jeff
41:31
Foxworthy was, he might be a redneck. Yes. Yeah.
41:34
You know, and those jokes were so fun. They were.
41:36
I mean, that was pretty brilliant for the time.
41:39
Yeah, it really was. In the original, wait, it
41:42
was like the kings of comedy, but they had the,
41:47
what was it? You know, Ron White. Yes, I can't
41:50
think of it either. I know. Larry the Cable Guy.
41:51
Yeah. Yeah, I can't. Is it Blue Collar Comedy
41:54
or something like that? I think that was literally
41:55
it. I think it was Blue Collar Comedy Tour. I
41:57
think that's what it was, but that was hilarious.
41:59
Yeah, it was. Ron White had one of my favorite
42:01
jokes when he was talking about he was riding
42:03
in such a small plane he got passed up by a kite.
42:07
I was like. Man, it's just the way that he said
42:10
it, because if I say it, it's not going to be
42:12
that funny. Yeah, it's all about timing and their
42:15
cadence. So you get your jokes just from just
42:19
normal conversation. Normal life. Yeah, I talk
42:23
about myself all the time. I'm not an observational
42:27
comedian. It's all about me the whole time, just
42:30
self -deprecating. This is what it's like to
42:33
be. in your 50s and a single mom and dealing
42:37
with, you know, an aging body and, you know,
42:42
so, yeah. But you're like, do you ever think
42:45
that might be because you mentioned earlier that
42:48
you're an introvert? Do you think that's the
42:49
reason why you tend to focus inward so much?
42:53
Maybe. I never thought about that, but maybe
42:55
it is. Maybe I'm narcissistic. I don't know.
43:00
Oh, no, I don't think you're narcissistic. Well,
43:02
most narcissists would never call themselves
43:04
a narcissist, so that proves I'm not a narcissist.
43:07
Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Whoa, psychology.
43:13
No, I think, you know, you seem to have... you
43:16
know, at least a little empathy, you know? Yeah.
43:19
Yeah, I cry if a kitten dies. You know, even
43:24
if you didn't know about it, you know, you just
43:26
shed a tear just in case. Yeah, yeah. I'm not
43:29
a narcissist. Let me cry. Right, I'm just going
43:31
to cry. You know, I read somewhere, too, that,
43:34
like, people with ADHD tend to cry a lot, and
43:38
it almost brought me to tears. That's pretty
43:41
good. Yeah, always just like, so true. So true.
43:46
I don't know why, but I like to cry. I do. It's
43:50
just weird. You just drive home and all of a
43:52
sudden it's like. I only do that if I'm listening
43:56
to country music and driving home. Oh yeah. Is
43:58
there a song that gets you? You're going to miss
44:02
this. You're going to want this back. Who's that?
44:06
I think it's Trace Adkins, I think. Trace Adkins,
44:09
okay. I think. It's about. Raising your kids
44:13
and you know, they're little and it's like, oh,
44:16
you know, oh, yeah. Yeah, that'll get you Yeah,
44:19
anything I'm gonna do with children. Yeah, these
44:21
little bastards. I can't stand them. You're gonna
44:23
miss this You're gonna want this back of the
44:27
country songs that get me. I think it's um Zach
44:32
Brown band the colder weather. Mm -hmm. God that
44:35
song that's such an amazing song. Mm -hmm. I
44:39
don't know what I'm like, how do you capture
44:41
winter? like that in a song, you know? It's poetry.
44:45
It is. It's poetry. It's it's it's insane. You
44:48
know, as I actually I kind of think of and I
44:51
think that we spoke about this actually the last
44:53
episode was I was kind of maybe mentioning to
44:56
you. I hope that was you. But yeah, I was mentioning
44:58
on how like I write jokes like I write songs.
45:01
Oh, yeah. I put the rhythm to the cadence. Yeah.
45:04
There's a cadence to it that I try to have. Yeah.
45:06
You know, do you have any kind of like tips or
45:08
tricks like that that you? incorporate? You know,
45:11
I've heard that before. I've had other comedians
45:13
tell me that. And I don't, really. But I always
45:19
think about memorizing jokes. It's a lot like
45:22
memorizing a song. Because I love to sing. And
45:27
it's like, if I can remember a three and a half
45:29
minute song, I can remember a three and a half
45:31
minute joke. Yeah. So, you know, and I guess
45:34
it would be kind of in a cadence, just like a
45:36
song. Yeah. Yeah. Do you put like little reminders
45:39
for yourself in your joke note, your joke notebook?
45:43
Um, I will. Yeah. I'll have like a little list.
45:46
Yeah. Yeah. It's like, okay, first I'm going
45:49
to talk about fucking a baby. Then I'm going
45:53
to talk about my front butt. And then, yeah.
45:56
Your front butt? Yeah. I never heard that before.
46:00
Your front butt. Man, I was like, is that what
46:01
that is? Oh my gosh. Have you ever felt... like
46:05
comedians were given opportunities that maybe
46:09
you should have had. Is that bad again? Well,
46:12
no, I'm trying to figure out how to word this
46:15
so I don't sound like an asshole. Just be yourself.
46:19
Yeah. Just let it out. An asshole. Okay. Well,
46:25
here, I'll go into divulging some personal information.
46:34
have a roommate and it's she's a trans Blackhawk
46:39
pilot and I love her she's amazing and But it's
46:46
hard to live with someone who Shares such amazing
46:51
news every single day like she you know, we're
46:54
standing in the kitchen. She's like, oh my god
46:56
I just got offered a 45 minute set in Houston.
47:00
Oh my God, Joe Rogan knows my name. I'm having
47:03
a, I'm doing a podcast with David Lucas and we're
47:06
fishing. And it's like, you know, I'm like, that's
47:11
great. Congratulations. That roommate of yours
47:17
is very like. She is a go -getter. She's killing
47:23
it. Yeah, it's crazy. So I get where you're coming
47:30
from. Yeah, it's really cool to see it sitting
47:35
on the front row. Yeah. But it's also like, I
47:41
don't have any, you know, like Jim Morgan doesn't
47:44
know my name. Right, yeah. I feel that, I feel
47:48
that. You know, it's like, it's kind of like,
47:51
you actually said it before, like you mentioned
47:53
about like how it's like on one hand you have,
47:55
you know, you want to support your friends, you
47:57
know, but on the other hand, you're kind of like,
48:00
you know, damn. Yeah, it's hard not to feel a
48:05
reflection, like, you know, what am I doing?
48:08
Yeah. You know, but, you know, and she, and we've
48:12
had conversations about this, you know, and she's
48:14
like, I'm sorry, I don't mean to like, you know,
48:18
make you feel bad. And I'm like, I don't want
48:21
you to dim your light to make me feel comfortable.
48:24
That's very nice of you. See, that's what I'm
48:26
talking about. You're not a narcissist. Imagine
48:29
if you were like, yeah, bitch. Let's fight. Could
48:32
you imagine if I got in a fight with her? Oh,
48:34
I would be pummeled. She's... Me too. She's got
48:37
some guns, man. Yeah. Like, and not just on a
48:41
helicopter. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, it's insane.
48:45
I have to remind myself that we're in two different
48:47
lanes. We're in two different lanes, yes. Yeah.
48:50
And her audience is definitely not my audience.
48:53
It's true. definitely not her audience. Yeah.
48:57
So I, you know, and I have to, I have to remind
49:00
myself that we are building two separate comedy
49:04
careers. Um, and, and, you know, my, and her
49:08
focus is really to, um, get to know famous people.
49:13
And she's doing amazing at doing that. I mean,
49:15
she's on, you know, she's got direct cell phone
49:20
numbers and texting with some big people, you
49:25
know, and scheduling coffee dates with some big
49:28
comedians. And, you know, I get excited if I
49:35
get to go to Poke the Bear, which is still good.
49:40
You know, and she'll try to make me feel better.
49:42
And she's like, but someone recognized you at
49:44
Walmart. I'm like, yeah, they sure did. It's
49:48
the same. It's the same. You know, someone recognizing
49:51
me at Walmart and you, having coffee with, you
49:55
know, a headliner at the mothership. They're
49:58
the same. Yeah, that's exactly the same. Which
50:02
is kind of funny because it's sort of like, you
50:04
know, it's the, you know, you understand that
50:07
they're being nice. You understand that, you
50:09
know, but they're also mentioning things that
50:12
are very important to them. Yeah. And they're
50:14
sharing it because it's important to them. They
50:16
want to share with you. They want, you know,
50:17
that to be important to you. So I guess like.
50:20
Yeah. And I want to be her cheerleader. Yeah,
50:23
you know, but uh, but what you mentioned earlier
50:25
or just a second ago about how um, you know Like
50:31
basically like it's it's like finding what's
50:33
important to you You know and and how you said
50:35
that your audiences differ and everything and
50:38
it's like Do you want to be a talk show host?
50:41
I do not you know, it's like my goals are to
50:46
build a you know a following and and I know Who
50:52
my following is it's it's it's the Midwest people.
50:55
Yeah, you know and and when I look at my algorithm
50:58
and I look at like who my my followers are they're
51:04
Middle -aged men from the Midwest. That's who
51:08
most of my followers followers are You know,
51:12
we're in two different lanes. It's like, you
51:15
know, she's she's meeting famous people Um, and
51:19
I'm trying to build a fan base. Um, I'm focusing
51:23
more on the people who follow me. Um, and, and
51:28
I, when I look on my, um, social medias, I see
51:33
that they're mostly people from the Midwest.
51:36
And I'm, you know, I'm just trying to focus on
51:42
getting them, doing comedy for them. Yeah. So
51:48
if along the way, you know, I become friends
51:51
with someone famous, it probably will be Joe,
51:54
who's someone famous that I'm friends with. But,
51:57
you know, that's great. But it's more about,
52:01
you know, having a following and doing comedy
52:05
for the people who want to come pay tickets,
52:09
buy tickets to see me. Yeah. So that's what I'm
52:12
focusing on. That's a good focus to have, especially
52:16
when you learn who exactly you're performing
52:19
for. It makes your comedic performances much
52:23
better because you know who you're talking to.
52:27
The beauty of watching your friends and being
52:29
supportive of your friends, there is a part of
52:33
you that goes like, damn, I wish I were there.
52:36
But then there's a part of you that's like. But
52:38
that's not the direction that I'm going in. And
52:41
that's okay. And in being okay with that and
52:44
in making you yourself, it's like that's when
52:47
you really boil it all down, that's exactly what
52:49
standup is. And that's your perspective and you
52:54
gain people from how they share your perspective.
52:58
Yeah. It's an interesting journey. And two years
53:02
ago, if you would have... Told me that I would
53:06
be living in Austin with a trans comedian who
53:10
flew Blackhawk helicopters yeah, I would have
53:14
said what type of crack are you smoking because
53:18
Doesn't seem right but yeah, you know, it's it's
53:21
fun. It's you know, yeah, it's it is a journey
53:25
Yeah, you know and that's like, you know, that's
53:28
something that and I didn't think of really until
53:32
Until I really got into it, that's when I really
53:35
saw what stand -up was. When I used to watch
53:39
Comedy Central and things like that, I would
53:41
just be like, man, there's these cool people
53:43
saying cool shit and that's it. But now I'm like,
53:47
there's so much work and there's so many elements.
53:52
It's not just about going up on stage and just
53:56
saying whatever. There's a lot behind it. There
54:01
really is and there's so many nuances to it.
54:05
It's a crazy little industry. It is. It is and
54:10
it's always moving and always shifting and you're
54:13
learning and going with it too. When I see your
54:21
beloved Blackhawk helicopter roommate whom I've
54:24
had on this episode or had on the show myself
54:26
because of you actually. It's like when I see
54:30
that and I see the people who are being tenacious
54:32
out there and chasing the dream and everything,
54:34
it makes me proud to be a part of the same realm,
54:39
a part of the same thing. Case in point, I met
54:45
a couple years ago at Creek, I think, for the
54:49
first time I met Cam Patterson. I was there,
54:54
he did a set and then got to hang with him a
54:57
few times. Not enough to say he's a friend or
55:00
nothing like that, but just a few times, which
55:02
is kind of crazy. He goes to SNL. That's the
55:05
cool thing about being in Austin, isn't it? Yeah,
55:07
it is. You just never know who you're at a club
55:12
with is going to pop off. Yeah. It's like, do
55:17
you want to be the guy who's going to make it,
55:19
or do you want to be the person to do it? Yeah.
55:21
But all that does is just inspire you to next
55:25
time you get on stage is do better. Yeah. I'm
55:28
in my mid -50s, so I mean, I could be doing this
55:33
for a while, I'm not sure. But someday, my grandkids
55:38
are going to be like. My grandma knew so -and
55:43
-so and you know, yeah Yeah, and the other thing
55:46
is that footage, you know, just watching you
55:49
on stage and everything. God, that's gonna be
55:51
badass I know that'll be weird won't it? Yeah,
55:54
cuz I think about like, you know if I were like
55:55
to my grandma and she used to do like shows too,
55:59
but like it was different like she kind of I
56:02
can't describe him, but it was like Like she
56:05
was like in this club or something with a bunch
56:07
of these like, you know older ladies Yeah. And
56:11
they did plays every year. So every year, all
56:15
the grandkids, everybody would get together and
56:18
we would go and just be a part of like this party
56:20
where they would just do these plays. And I still
56:23
don't understand it. But I remember now I look
56:27
back at it and I'm like, okay, that was kind
56:28
of badass. Yeah. How cool that you got to see
56:30
your grandma do that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have
56:33
grandkids, by the way, but my future grandkids.
56:37
But they're going to be you know, telling their
56:40
friends about their grandma's dry vagina. It's
56:44
gonna be amazing. Yeah, they're gonna be like,
56:49
huh, I wonder if she ever fixed that. That's
56:52
not how that works. Man, well, is there anything
56:57
that you would like to put out? We're pretty
56:59
much wrapping it up now. Yeah. Let's see. I did
57:05
secure a venue in South Austin to start producing
57:10
shows. Really? Where? Where's this venue? It's
57:14
called the Regal Room. Regal Room? Yeah. It's
57:17
a black box, like 160 to 200 seat venue that
57:24
usually does live music, but they're excited
57:26
about doing comedy. That's awesome. Yeah. I haven't
57:29
gotten a date yet. because I need to find a good
57:33
headliner. We're going to have to stay tuned
57:36
for that. Yeah, for September, but October 4th,
57:39
I'm doing a show with Donna Lee and another female
57:45
comedian from Michigan named Robin Gillerman.
57:49
Okay. I'm trying to figure out a theme for that
57:53
show because Donna Lee and I look so much alike
57:58
and then, Robin Dillerman looks like us as well.
58:02
Oh, trying to figure out a way to like for three.
58:05
It's an October. October. October 4th. Yeah.
58:08
Hocus pocus. Oh, yeah. The three like the three
58:11
witches. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. I know
58:13
they don't look alike, but there's maybe something
58:15
in that room there. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know.
58:17
That's a good idea. I never thought about doing
58:19
like Halloween themed. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Witchy.
58:22
Witchy. Maybe. Yeah. Like, you know, I don't
58:25
know. There's probably some in there. I don't
58:26
know. I don't know. It's like, we'll have to
58:28
see. I thought about naming it. If I did it,
58:32
it was Donna. Oh, Donna. Donna Lee, man. She's
58:39
so funny. She is, yeah. And it's funny because
58:42
everyone would come up to me and... Say they,
58:46
you know, met me at another show, and I'm like,
58:48
you're talking about Donnelly. You didn't meet
58:50
me. Oh, you can see that. Yeah. And recently,
58:54
she went and signed up for Kill Tony, and I wasn't
58:56
there, and everyone came up to her, and they
58:58
were like, great episode! I was like, no, that
59:01
was Kimberly. And I'm like, yes, I'm so glad
59:03
it happens to you too, not just me. Oh, that's
59:05
great. Yeah. That's awesome. Man, well, Kimberly,
59:09
thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. I
59:11
love having you on. And I love that this is like
59:13
part two for you. Yeah. This is great. Yeah.
59:16
And thank you so much for your patience dealing
59:18
with that technical difficulty. Yeah, you gave
59:20
me free coffee. So I'll do a lot for free coffee.
59:24
Hell yeah. Well, thank you so much. I really
59:27
appreciate it so much. And I can't wait to have
59:29
you back on again. Cool. Yeah. Cool. And that
59:32
is it. That is a wrap. Adios. Hehehehehe!